pluralism

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: plu=ral=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

pluralism, n. 

•  The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pluralism, n.
1 holding more than one office, esp. an ecclesiastical office or benefice, at a time.
2 a form of society in which the members of minority groups maintain their independent cultural traditions.
3 Philos. a system that recognizes more than one ultimate principle (cf. MONISM 2).

Derivative

pluralist n. pluralistic adj. pluralistically adv.

THESAURUS

pluralism

Nazism, a certain number, a few, admixture, alloyage, amalgamation, blending, capriciousness, centralism, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, coalescence, collectivism, combination, comminglement, commingling, commixture, communism, composition, constitutionalism, dappleness, democratism, deviation, difference, differentiation, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, dualism, eclecticism, fascism, federalism, feudalism, feudality, fusion, governmentalism, immixture, imperialism, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, integration, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, merger, mingling, mixing, mixture, monarchism, more, motleyness, mutability, national socialism, neofascism, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, nonuniqueness, numerousness, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, plurality, pluralness, political principles, raggedness, republicanism, royalism, several, socialism, statism, syncretism, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wavering